Legend of the Eight Samurai

        When our Prf. was going to play this movie Legend of the Eight Samurai, the first thing I did was to check the definition of samurai. According to the web dictionary, samurai means a Japanese warrior who was a member of the feudal military aristocracy. This story starts from a Japanese princess whose families have been killed by their enemies, escapes successfully and she is told the legend of a curse on her family. She has to find eight beads that identify eight dog-warriors to defeat the evil queen Tamazusa. The guy who rescues Princess Shizu-hime and his companion are the first two beads owners. While looking at the light shines with the bead in their palms, I can clearly see two characters 信 and 義, which separately means devotion and justice. The other character who is called Shinbei, a passionate young man who falls in love with the princess holds a magical bead in his palm with 仁 benevolence. This truth actually doesn't  come out until a little behind the middle of the story after Shinbei gets to know the evil queen is his biological mother. Shinbei is extremely sad about it and has been transferred to another body by the ruthless followers of his mother. The rest of the beads are 孝 filial piety, 忠 loyal, 智 wisdom, 悌 vision. All of them have been fight for looking for the rest of the beads to kill their enemies. To complete this difficult task, they have also been killed by the phantom ghosts to get to the last final step to success. At the end, the princess uses the high-power bow and arch to shoot the biggest evil and won the war. I couldn't give more compliments to this movie because of I'm not a big fan of fantasy. Otherwise, this movie was shoot in almost 30 years ago. I'm going to stop judging.